For the second year in a row, Danielle Keats Citron of the University of Virginia School of Law, is the country's top-cited legal scholar. Six other women are included among the top 10 most-cited law professors — more than double the number of the past two years.
Although women are the majority of undergradaute students (55 percent), they are underrepresented among NCAA varsity student-athletes (43 percent). Women are also less than half of all coaches for women's collegiate athletic teams.
A new study from scholars at the University of Richmond and New York University has examined how children conform to gender norms. The study reveals that the roots of gender conformity appear in children as young as five years old.
After the U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion, there was a significant decline in applications to medical residency programs in states that enacted new abortion restrictions compared to states that did not.
Currently, women are the head of government in 13 UN member countries. Ten of these women are their country's first female leader. Only 63 of the 193 UN member countries have been led by a woman.
In 2024, 7.9 million women across the EU worked as scientists and engineers, up from 5.2 million women in 2014 and 3.4 million women in 2008. Across all economic activities, women represented 40.5 percent of scientists and engineers in the EU workforce in 2024.
Across four studies, new research led by Cornell University's Alice Lee, found women consistently show a stronger preference for postings with narrower salary ranges compared to men. The research revealed a similar pattern within the labor market itself; industries with wider posted salary ranges have a lower representation of women in the workforce.
“Women are not ‘opting out’ — they are leaving because many jobs are not designed around the logistical and financial realities of childcare and women’s lives,” said Sheila Brassel, a research director at Catalyst.
Women made up 8.1 percent of all workplace fatalities in 2024, down from 8.5 percent in 2023. But women accounted for 12.8 percent of homicides or suicides at work in 2024.
In a study of over 2,800 millennials working in England, scholars from University College London found the income premium of early-career, college-educated women compared to women without a degree may be primarily explained by longer hours worked, rather than higher base salaries.
“A survivor’s access to support shouldn’t be dictated by race, bureaucracy or geography,” said Jermey Levine of the University of Michigan. “Until we remove these administrative gatekeepers — starting with police verification — the system will continue to fail the people it was built to protect.”
A Cornell University study has found evidence contrary to the popular belief that men do not read stories with women characters. In a randomized experiment featuring nearly 3,000 participants, the authors found men are just as likely to read stories about women as they are men, while women show a slight preference for stores about other women.
